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>> add it to the list. derek van dam is here to tell us more about it. >> guys, it is important we get this out there. any amount of oil that is spilled is bad enough. but it was a relatively small oil spill at first but it doesnt take much for that sheen of oil on the very top surface of the ocean to spread out in different directions. waves, winds, ocean currents. thats what we will discuss during particular weather bulletin. just on wednesday when the original oil spill occurred west of santa...

We have to put a gate on a sea lion, and that female sea lion went down 700 meters. so were talking about -- >> 2100 feet. >> 2100 feet. so this was kind of a surprise for us that they can go so deep. amazing. so with new technology, were discovering new things. >> right. galapagos is at an intersection of four major ocean currents. a crossroads of nutrients flowing in from california to antarctica. but this kind of abundance comes thanks to location and law. you see, since the late 90s, big com...

We ha >> we have put a depth gauge on a female sea hissen and that sea lion went down 700 meters. >> 2200 feet. >> 2100 feet. so this was a kind of surprise for us that they can go so deep. amazing. so with new technology were discovering new things. >> right. galapagos is at an intersection of four major ocean currents. a crossroads of nutrients flowing in from california to antarctica. but this kind of abundance comes thanks to location and law. you see, since the late 90s, big commercial fish...

Lading gear and so forth. hopefully the tail section of the black boxes is quite close there as well. and so we hear some talk about search areas. its not always entirely clear what theyre searching for where. but what is really important is to find that stuff on the bottom of the ocean on the sea bed where the black boxes are going to be. thats where the answers are going to be. >> and, of course, the divers cant go in because the water is just too rough there. and some of the aircraft are ofte...

Shaping up. the reason i say that i want to take you through the wind pediatric -- through the wind speeds. see the dark reds? the entire portion of the java sea, you will be hard pressed to see winds as strong. it is about 55-60 miles an hour so you take that in to what we call the scale that takes the wind speed and tries to translate how it becomes in ocean conditions and this puts the ocean conditions the seas roughly between 18 and 25 feet high this time tomorrow based on the wind speed. th...

Have. its been nearly ten months since that plane vanished in midair on its way to beijing from malaysia. >> we have yet to see anything floating on the surface subsequent to the loss of mh 370 which is just frankly mind boggling. no one can understand even when you look at ocean currents and the drift patterns. surely something should have washed up by now. >> reporter: as weeks turned into months, the search area for mh 370 shifted farther and farther away from the planes last known radar cont...

Days active thunderstorms going to develop as well. we have under an hour of daylight left across this region. thunderstorms across the northern fields of the debris field. the strongest out of the field of the debris field but thats good news. daylight not left so thats a big concern. the bigger issue a look at this line of weather that moves in right across this debris field, this is accompanied by high winds. and you get a repeat of friday morning as well. the next couple of days the storm is...

From surabaya to singapore when it disappeared sunday. based on the ocean currents this is more than likely related to flight 8501. were joined now with a closer look with what may or may not have happened in this region and exactly what the search teams are dealing with now as they move into the area. >> absolutely. john this particular location, i just pulled up the currents in the area where we know the possible debris is located, about ten kilometers east of the last known contact with the a...

Spotted in the ocean about five or six miles from that point of radar contact. andrew thank you. >> andrew talked about the weather at the time of the disappearance of the plane and the crew was asking permission to go over the thunderstorm and go around it. what are the weather conditions in the area now where the debris has been spotted? will investigators be able to search under water soon? lets bring in meteorologist pedram javaheri. he is looking at that part of it for us. what does this me...

This is the current position and direction that the sea currents are moving. they have changed. instead of being parallel which makes sense to have debris here off to the southeast, i would suspect maybe in the days ahead we could find debris on the coast of borneo. the island. im sure authorities are looking closely at this region and contacting the villagers and the communities that they will find debris on this coastline. we have a long way to go but the good news s. the java sea is one of th...